THE GREATER GOOD:

This is Intentionally, Purposely Meant to be Analyzed, Considered, Pondered, ReflectedUpon both NOW, and OVER TIME. I do not mean to be vague. Reflect and Think OverTime, Past, Present, and Future.

IF YOU CAN GET ON BOARD WITH THIS THINKING TRAIN AND STAY ON TRACK WITH ME,LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK. IF YOU THINK THAT MY THOUGHT PROCESSES AREDERAILED, THEN JUST DISREGARD. 04.17.2017, BB.

Consider all that you know, and can remember, as you continue with your life listeningand reading ALL OF THE GOVERNMENT CONTROLLED MAIN STREAM MEDIA AS TIME MARCHES ON.

CONSIDER THESE POINTS, AND ADD YOUR OWN:

* WHAT WOULD THE CONTINUED EXISTENCE OF LEADERS LIKE JFK, MX, MLK, AND RFK HAVE DONE TO OUR LIVES AND REFLECTIONS OF THE BELOW - TODAY ?

* GERMANY LOST WWII.

* NAZISM DID NOT LOOSE WWII.

* JAPAN LOST WWII.

* THE U.S. REBUILT JAPAN.

* DID AMERICA REALLY WIN WWII ? WHAT ?

* PATTON WANTED TO CRUSH ALL ENEMIES AND OPPOSITION.

* MACARTHUR WANTED TO CRUSH ALL ENEMIES AND OPPOSITION.

* BOTH PATTON AND MACARTHUR WERE REMOVED.

* THERE IS NO PROFIT IN PEACE.

* VIET NAM, LAOS, AND CAMBODIA WERE ESSENTIAL TO STOP THE SPREAD OF COMMUNISM.

* WE LOST IN VIET NAM, LAOS, AND CAMBODIA.

* THE DRUG ENTERPRISE WON IN VIET NAM.

* VIET NAM WAS ALSO ABOUT U.S. BIOLOGICAL, CHEMICAL, AND WEAPONS WARFARE TESTING.

* THE U.S. HAS BEEN CHASING TOJO, NAZISM, COMMUNISM, SOCIALISM, TOTALITARIAN REGIMES,TERRORISM, AL QUAEDA, ISIS AND OTHER EVOLVING THREATS ENDLESSLY, WITH NO FUTURE END IN SIGHT IN OUR LIFE TIMES, OTHER THAN WHAT GOVERNMENT CONTROLLED MAIN STREAM MEDIA FEEDS AND TELLS "We the People...".

"We the People..." have been told that WE:

* MUST STOP EVIL IN ONE FORM OR ANOTHER.

* HOW ARE WE DOING ?

* ANYBODY KEEPING SCORE FOR REAL ?

* HISTORY IS WRITTEN BY THE "VICTORIOUS."

* THE U.S. INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITIES AND THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATIONS THEMESONGS HAVE ALSO BEEN: "THIS IS FOR THE GREATER GOOD."

* LIFE IS MORTAL.

* HOW MANY MUST BE IGNORED OR SACRIFICED ?

NOW - LET ME USE THIS WEEK AND MONTH IN CHICAGO, ILLINOIS TO AID THIS REFLECTIONEXERCISE.

6 SHOT IN CHICAGO, THURSDAY, 04.13.2017, LEAVING 2 CRITICALLY WOUNDED:100+ PEOPLE SHOT THIS WEEK IN CHICAGO, ILLINOIS:860+ PEOPLE SHOT THIS YEAR IN CHICAGO, ILLINOIS:160+ FATAL SHOOTINGS THIS YEAR IN CHICAGO, ILLINOIS:CHICAGO NEWS 04/14/2017, BB.

The latest attack happened about 3:30 p.m. in the West Side Austin neighborhood, where a Dodge Caravan pulled up to two men standing at the corner of Chicago and Lockwood, and someone inside opened fire, according to Chicago Police.

One man, 32, was hit in the leg and taken in critical condition to Stroger Hospital. The other, 27, was stabilized at West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park with a knee wound, police said.

Thirty minutes earlier, four people walked up to a 26-year-old man in the 1000 block of West Wilson in Uptown, and one of them shot him in the left thigh. His condition was stabilized at Illinois Masonic Medical Center, police said.

About 10:15 a.m. in South Chicago, someone in a passing black vehicle opened fire on a 20-year-old man in the 8000 block of South Coles, hitting him in the hip, police said. He took himself to Trinity Hospital in good condition.

Five hours before that, a 39-year-old man was sitting in a van in West Englewood’s 5900 block of South Loomis when two gunmen walked up and shot him in the arm and leg. He was stabilized at Stroger Hospital, police said.

Thursday’s first shooting happened a little after midnight in Brighton Park on the Southwest Side. Two men walked up to a 40-year-old man standing in a garage in the 4600 block of South Kedzie, and shot him in the chest and abdomen, police said. He was in critical condition at Mount Sinai Hospital.

Nine people were shot in the city on Wednesday, and 80 people have been shot in the last week. Since the start of the year, 858 people have been shot in Chicago, 155 of them fatally.

News Local news Breaking News29 people shot in less than 18 hours in Chicago

Police respond to a shooting at 31st Street Beach. Two people were wounded at 10:30 p.m. Saturday as families milled about the popular site. (Elyssa Cherney/Chicago Tribune)Elyssa CherneyContact Reporter Chicago Tribune

In the pouring rain, the 23-year-old man pulled a fur-lined hood over his head and stood on the porch of his younger brother’s home in the Douglas Park neighborhood early Sunday, watching police investigate the city’s first homicide of the weekend.

The man said he heard people arguing and throwing bottles at each other about 2:30 a.m. before the shots rang out. He said he went to check on what was happening three doors down but then stopped, retreated back.

“When I noticed the commotion, I headed the other direction,” he said, as he was getting ready to go to work as a truck driver. “There’s a reason for the rain. Only God knew this was going to happen.”

The fatal shooting of Tywan Anderson, 23, in the 1300 block of South Fairfield Avenue, half a block north of Mount Sinai Hospital, marked the only fatality among 29 people who were shot from Saturday to Sunday morning, officials said. Of the people shot, three were teenagers — ages 14, 15 and 17.

Several of the attacks also injured multiple victims as gunmen opened fire on groups of people. Two shootings that occurred in the Chatham and Back of the Yards neighborhoods each injured three people.

Anderson, whose address was not known, was killed in the Douglas Park neighborhood was shot in the head and back and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 2:57 p.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner's office.

In the same shooting, a 19-year-old man was shot in the hand and also taken to Mount Sinai, where his condition was stabilized.

The truck driver, who grew up on the same block, said he didn’t know the victims and thought they lived in a different neighborhood. He said he heard rapid-fire shots before police came. Another man who was a DJ at a party on the block said he heard as many as 20 gunshots.

Police had made arrests in incidents in East Ukrainian Village and Lakeview, but none of the others.

In the East Ukrainian Village shooting around 6 a.m., a 32-year-old man was walking in the 1100 block of North Ashland Avenue when someone in a passing car fired shots before fleeing, police said. The man walked into a nearby fire station and was transported to Stroger Hospital in good condition.

Officers nearby saw the shooting and pulled over the driver three blocks away for an arrest in connection with the incident, police said. Officers found a weapon and spent shell casings inside the man's silver SUV.

On Saturday night, two people were shot near 31st Street Beach about 10:30 p.m. as families milled about the popular site.

A 27-year-old man and an 18-year-old woman were sitting near the shoreline about 10:30 p.m. in the 2800 block of South Fort Dearborn Drive when they heard gunshots and realized they were hit, Chicago police said.

The man was struck in the right leg and the woman was struck in the right hand, police said. Both were taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in good condition.

In other shootings:

A 38-year-old man was walking on the sidewalk in the 4800 block of South Ada Street in Back of the Yards about 3:10 a.m. when he was shot in the left arm. He was taken to University of Illinois at Chicago hospital, where his condition was stabilized.

A 23-year-old man was shot in the left thigh while driving in the 4200 block of North Pulaski Road in the Old Irving Park neighborhood about 2:30 a.m. He was taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where his condition was stabilized.

At 2:05 a.m. in the Fuller Park neighborhood, a 30-year-old man was shot in the face at a party in the 4800 block of South Princeton Avenue after arguing with someone who opened fire. The man took himself to Provident Hospital of Cook County and was transferred to Stroger Hospital, where his condition was stabilized.

A 27-year-old man was driving east in the 9700 block of South Genoa Avenue in Longwood Manor when someone in a black SUV fired shots, striking him. The man drove himself to Little Company of Mary Hospitaland was transferred to Advocate Christ Medical Center in serious condition with gunshot wounds to the chest, back and left arm.

A 21-year-old man was shot in the 2900 block of North Sheffield Avenue about 1:15 a.m. at a party at an apartment in Lakeview. A man who was earlier asked to leave returned to the party, fired shots and struck the victim multiple times in the knees. The victim was taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where his condition was stabilized.

A little more than an hour earlier, a 14-year-old boy was shot in the right bicep while walking in the 1100 block of West 18th Street in the Pilsen neighborhood about midnight. The boy was walking on the sidewalk when men walked up to him and opened fire, police said. He was taken to Stroger Hospital, where his condition was stabilized.

A 15-year-old boy was sitting in the back seat of a vehicle in the 4400 block of North Racine Avenue in the Sheridan Park neighborhood when he was shot in the right cheek about 11:56 p.m. The boy got himself to Weiss Memorial Hospital, where his condition was stabilized.

At 11:50 p.m., a 21-year-old man was shot in the right leg while sitting in a vehicle in the 1800 block of South Western Avenue in the Little Village neighborhood after a gray SUV approached and a gunman inside opened fire. The man got himself to Mount Sinai Hospital, where his condition was stabilized.

A 17-year-old girl was shot in the right leg in the 6900 block of South Artesian Avenue in the Lithuanian Plaza neighborhood about 11:40 p.m. She was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where her condition was stabilized. The girl was walking in an alley with a small group of people when someone inside a dark-colored vehicle fired several shots before fleeing.

Earlier, three people were shot about 11 p.m. in the 600 block of East 79th Street in the Chatham neighborhood. A 46-year-old man and a 26-year-old man were shot multiple times, and they were taken in serious condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center and Northwestern Memorial Hospital, respectively. A third man, 25, was shot multiple times and taken to Stroger Hospital in stable condition. The men were standing on the sidewalk when a man came up and opened fire.

On the West Side, a 31-year-old woman was shot in the left leg in the East Garfield Park neighborhood about 10:45 p.m. She was standing in the 500 block of North Sawyer Avenue when she heard gunfire and felt pain, police said. She was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in good condition.

On the North Side, a 19-year-old woman suffered a graze wound to the back in the Rogers Park neighborhood about 9:35 p.m. The woman told police she was in the 1200 block of West Touhy Avenue when three men started shooting and she was hit. She was taken to St. Francis Hospital, where she was treated and released.

Just 15 minutes earlier, three people were shot in the 5100 block of South Wood Street in the Back of the Yards neighborhood about 9:20 p.m. A 20-year-old man was shot in the left ankle, and a 23-year-old man was shot in the right hand. Both of them were taken to Holy Cross Hospital in good condition. The third man, 29, was shot in the abdomen and taken to St. Bernard Hospital in serious condition. The men told police they were standing outside when they heard shots and felt pain.

Earlier, a 28-year-old man was shot in the right leg in the 9600 block of South Exchange Avenue in the South Deering neighborhood about 8:56 p.m. He was taken to Trinity Hospital in good condition. The man was walking near the mouth of an alley when he was confronted by a group of men and a gunman opened fire before running away.

Before that, a 28-year-old woman was shot shortly before 8:30 p.m. in the 5500 block of West Rice Street in the Austin neighborhood, Chicago police said. The woman was shot in both legs and ankles. She was taken to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, where her condition was stabilized, police said.

A person was shot about 6:15 p.m. in the 2000 block of West 68th Place in the West Englewood neighborhood. A 24-year-old man was sitting in a vehicle when a white SUV pulled alongside and someone fired shots. He was struck in the hand, elbow and abdomen. He was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where his condition was stabilized, police said.

Shortly after 5 p.m., a person was shot in the 1500 block of North Pulaski Road in the West Humboldt Park neighborhood. According to preliminary reports, a 27-year-old man was inside a vehicle when another vehicle pulled up and someone fired shots, striking him in the leg. He was taken to Stroger Hospital, where his condition was stabilized, police said.

About 12:50 p.m., two men were walking west on 61st Street toward Indiana Avenue in the Washington Park neihborhood when a Nissan drove up and shots were fired in their direction, Chicago police said. One of the victims, 23, was shot in the eye and foot. The other, 20, suffered wounds to the stomach and leg. Both men were taken in critical condition to Stroger Hospital, police said.Twitter @ElyssaCherney

Re: THE GREATER GOOD:

Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2017 4:28 am

by Slav

Why is this Chicago killings never get on a msm, I never hear about it, war is definately a big dollar big profit business, why would they want to stop the war that's is why patton was whacked He would of reduced the profits, JFK rfk would of also reduced the war profits, i wentbto get gas tonight and prices are back up again, war = higher gas prices, everything that happens today all wars are all for profit. Will it ever end ? I really can't see an end in site it seems to be getting worse, it's my belief there will be a big bomb or another 911 or a big war, these guys are greedy and so are the gas mafia.

What a life we live in, think about how we have changed from the 60s we have come a long way and will go a lot further.

Re: THE GREATER GOOD:

Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2017 1:43 pm

by kenmurray

Slav wrote:Why is this Chicago killings never get on a msm, I never hear about it, war is definately a big dollar big profit business, why would they want to stop the war that's is why patton was whacked He would of reduced the profits, JFK rfk would of also reduced the war profits, i wentbto get gas tonight and prices are back up again, war = higher gas prices, everything that happens today all wars are all for profit. Will it ever end ? I really can't see an end in site it seems to be getting worse, it's my belief there will be a big bomb or another 911 or a big war, these guys are greedy and so are the gas mafia.

What a life we live in, think about how we have changed from the 60s we have come a long way and will go a lot further.

Slav, It will never end. War is the biggest business in America. Plus the gas companies CEO's make more and more profit in their greedy pockets!

THE GREATER GOOD:

Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2017 3:24 pm

by Bruce Patrick Brychek

04.30.2017:

Dear JFK Murder Solved Forum Members and Readers:

Main Stream Media, Internet, Movie Theaters, Print, Radio, and T.V. are currentlypaying much attention to the Past Riots of Detroit, Los Angeles, and other SuchDesignated U.S. Cities from Their Noted Past.

We are Grossly concerned With The Past in the U.S., and The Current Greater GoodEVERYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD, i.e., Russia, North Korea, South Korea, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, Al Quaeda, ISIS, Terrorism, and EVIL EVERYWHERE ON THE PLANET EARTH, PAST PRESENT, AND FUTURE, EXCEPT CURRENTLY IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - YOU KNOW - WHERE "We the People..."live, die, pay taxes, work, etc.

TO ME IT'S LIKE SENDING ROCKETS AND CAMERAS TO THE MOON, MARS, AND OUTER SPACE TO STUDY THE EARTH MORE CLOSELY.

BUT WHAT ABOUT THE HERE AND NOW FOR "We the People..." ?

Analyze and look at Quality of Life both Currently, and Its' Direction in the U.S. HERE,and NOW.

As you read and think about the information below, pay Extra Special Attention to thefact that the Chicago Sun Times NOW BOASTS OF A - SHOOTING TRACKER ?

Talk about The Dumbing Down of America.

And THESE CURRENT AMERICAN CITIZENS ARE THOUGHT TO GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THEREMOVALS OF JFK, MX, MLK, and RFK, the OKLAHOMA BOMBING, 09.11.2001, etc. ?(04.30.2017, BB).

Three people were killed and five were wounded in shootings across the city since Friday evening, according to Chicago Police.

The city surpassed 1,000 gunshot victims on the year earlier in the week, and it is fast approaching the 200-homicide mark, according to Chicago Sun-Times data.

The latest fatal shooting happened just after 11 p.m. Friday in the Hermosa neighborhood on the Northwest Side. Adrian John Nieves, 31, was sitting in the back seat of a van parked in the 4300 block of West Altgeld when a gray vehicle pulled up and someone inside it shot him in the head. He was taken to Community First Medical Center, where he died, police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. His home address was not immediately known.

Four hours earlier in the West Side Austin neighborhood, 31-year-old Alfred Stovall Jr. was found with multiple gunshot wounds in the 600 block of North Lorel, authorities said. Stovall, who lived in the neighborhood, died at Stroger Hospital, authorities said.

The first killing of the weekend happened about 5:30 p.m. Friday in Longwood Manor on the South Side. Two men, ages 26 and 27, showed up at Roseland Community Hospital after the attack in the 200 block of West 98th Place. The older man died, and the younger was in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the abdomen, police said. The older man’s identity has not been released.

The most recent nonfatal shooting happened about about 3:35 a.m. Sunday in the Chinatown neighborhood on the South Side. A 27-year-old man was standing on the sidewalk in the 2400 block of South Canal when he heard shots and felt pain, police said. He was taken to Rush University Medical Center with a gunshot wound to his left arm and then was transferred to Stroger Hospital, where his condition was stabilized.

At least six other people were wounded in shootings across the city between 5 p.m. Friday and 4 a.m. Sunday.

Last weekend, 38 people were shot in Chicago, seven fatally.

Follow gun violence across the city this weekend with the Sun-Times shooting tracker. Last weekend, 38 people were shot in Chicago, seven fatally.

As always, I strongly recommend that you first read, research, and study material completely yourself about a Subject Matter, and then formulate your own Opinions and Theories.

Bear in mind that we are trying to attract and educate a Whole New Generation of JFKResearchers who may not be as well versed as you.

Comments ?

Respectfully,BB.

Re: THE GREATER GOOD:

Posted: Mon May 01, 2017 3:13 am

by Bob Jonas

Such a sad thing to read about what was a wonderful city. I'm sure parts of Chicago still are as I witnessed last April (2016), but the youth orchestra trip my daughter and I were on didn't exactly tour the parts of town popping with gunshots. I wish we could trade the sounds of violence with the sounds of violins in that great city!

THE GREATER GOOD:

Posted: Sun May 07, 2017 11:21 pm

by Bruce Patrick Brychek

05.07.2017:

Dear JFK Murder Solved Forum Members and Readers:

Damn the Dumb Americans and Chicagoans.

Crime is Down !

It States so in the Newspapers, and on Radio and T.V. RIGHT ?

Certainly the Main Stream Media Can Be Counted On for Accurate, Analytical,Fact Filled, Investigative Journalistic Work Product. Right ?

CRIME IS DOWN.

UNLESS YOU ARE A VICTIM, A FAMILY MEMBER, A LOVED ONE, OR A FRIEND OF A VICTIM.

BUT GET OVER IT WILL YOU, PLEASE. QUIT WHINING PLEASE !

IT'S ALL FOR THE GREATER GOOD. DON'T PEOPLE GET IT ?

AFTER ALL WE'RE BRINGING DEMOCRACY, LAW AND ORDER, AND WORLD PEACE WHERE NEEDED, i.e.: Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Libya, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, South Korea, Syria, etc., RIGHT ?

WE'RE FIGHTING EVIL EVERYWHERE (EXCEPT MAYBE IN THE U.S.). WE'RE ON A MISSIONTO TELL THE WORLD THEY WANT TO BE SAVED, AND WE'RE HERE TO SAVE EVERYBODY(EXCEPT AMERICANS IT SEEMS).

IT'S MORE IMPORTANT TO BE THE POLICE OF THE WORLD THAN OF OUR OWN COUNTRYAND "We the People...", RIGHT ?

JUST REMEMBER:

THERE IS ZERO PROFIT IN PEACE.

MOVING ON TO THE TRIVIAL FACTS AND STATISTICS OF CHICAGO, AND "We the People..."

IT'S LIKE A COMPUTER GAME NOW IN CHICAGO. KEEP TRACK OF SHOOTINGS AND MURDERS ON THE CHICAGO SUN TIMES SHOOTING TRACKER. HOW TECHNOLOGICALLYADVANCED !

Two men were killed and at least 14 more people were wounded in shootings in Chicago between Friday evening and Sunday morning.

The city surpassed 1,000 gunshot victims for the year in late April, and it is nearing the 200-homicide mark, according to Chicago Sun-Times data.

The weekend’s most recent fatal shooting happened Sunday morning in the Brighton Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side. About 4:30 a.m., officers responded to a call of a person shot in the 2700 block of West 46th Place and found a 26-year-old man lying unresponsive between two parked cars, according to Chicago Police. The man, a documented gang member, was pronounced dead at the scene. The Cook County medical examiner’s office did not immediately confirm the fatality.

The first fatal shooting happened Friday afternoon in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side. A 19-year-old man was shot to death about 4:45 p.m. inside an apartment building in the 4500 block of South Drexel. Three gunmen followed Harry J. Davis as he walked into the apartment and shot him repeatedly in the head, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Davis was pronounced dead at the scene at 5:05 p.m., authorities said. He lived in the Washington Park neighborhood. A weapon was recovered. No arrests had been made as of Saturday morning. The shooting happened about block away from King College Prep. It was the first fatal shooting in the city since early Monday, marking Chicago’s third-longest stretch this year without a homicide.

The most recent nonfatal shooting happened early Sunday in the Montclare neighborhood on the Northwest Side. About 2:50 a.m., a male wearing a ski mask robbed a fast food restaurant at gunpoint in the 7100 block of West Diversey, police said. Two men, ages 19 and 22, were shot while trying to stop the robbery. The younger man was shot in the right shoulder and taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center in critical condition. The older man was shot in the back and taken to Loyola University Medical Center, where his condition was stabilized. The robber ran away from the scene after taking money from the register.

Under an hour earlier, a 17-year-old boy was shot in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side. About 2 a.m., officers responding to calls of shots fired in the 2700 block of West Polk Street found the boy suffering from a gunshot wound to the left leg, police said. He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition.

About a half hour earlier, three men were critically wounded in a shooting in the South Side Back of the Yards neighborhood. The men were leaving a party at a home in the 900 block of West 54th Place about 1:30 a.m. when an unknown male took out a gun and opened fire, police said. A 22-year-old man was shot in the chest, abdomen and right leg, while a 24-year-old man was shot multiple times, and a 24-year-old man was shot in the right shoulder. They were all taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition.

About 12:15 a.m. Sunday, a 20-year-old man was grazed in a shooting early Sunday in the Old Town neighborhood on the Near North Side. The man was walking north in the 1500 block of North Sedgwick when a van with multiple people pulled up and someone inside opened fire, police said. The man suffered a graze wound to the left shoulder and was taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where his condition was stabilized. The shooting happened in the same block as the Sedgwick Brown Line Station.

About ten minutes earlier, two people were shot in the Vittum Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side. A 17-year-old boy and a 19-year-old man were standing in the 4800 block of South La Crosse Avenue about 11:55 p.m. Saturday when someone in an SUV fired shots, striking the boy in the head and the man in the right foot, police said. The boy was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Park in critical condition, while the man was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in good condition.

At least five other people were wounded in shootings across Chicago between 4 p.m. Friday and 7 a.m. Sunday.

Follow gun violence across the city this weekend with the Sun-Times shooting tracker. Last weekend, 21 people were shot in Chicago, four fatally.

As always, I strongly recommend that you first read, research, and study material completely yourself about a Subject Matter, and then formulate your own Opinions and Theories.

A vehicle involved in a fatal West Side shooting is parked in the 100 block of North California Avenue on May 12, 2017, in Chicago's East Garfield Park neighborhood. A 32-year-old man was found dead in the car with gunshot wounds to the back and head. (Erin Hooley / Chicago Tribune) Elyssa Cherney and Deanese Williams-HarrisContact Reporters Chicago Tribune

The two cousins were waiting in the lobby of their South Side apartment for a GrubHub delivery of chicken wings early Friday when a barrage of gunfire sent them scrambling up the stairs.

“When we made it back upstairs, the gunshots were still going. More came,” said one of the cousins, 21, who did not give his name. “We looked out the window. I see one dude, I see his whole pants are red. He had white pants on.”

Chicago police said two men were shot outside the Washington Park apartment building about 1:40 a.m. Friday as pedestrians were caught in the crossfire of an apparent shootout between two cars. One of the cars, a black Ford sedan, slammed into the apartment building. The occupants ditched the car, its windshield cracked by at least six bullet holes.

The wounded — a 24-year-old man shot in the arm and a 22-year-old shot in the leg — were taken to Stroger Hospital, where their conditions were stabilized.

The cousins said they led the men inside their lobby and brought chairs for them as they waited for an ambulance to arrive. Splatters of blood on the sidewalk traced the route they took.

The shooting in the 5700 block of South Wabash Boulevard came in the middle of a violent night in Chicago that saw three people killed and 18 wounded throughout the city Thursday and early Friday.

Seven of the victims were shot, one fatally, within an hour and a half Thursday night, from 5:20 to 6:45 p.m.

FATAL SHOOTINGS:

• About 2:50 a.m. Friday on the West Side, officers responding to a call about gunfire in the 100 block of North California Avenue found a 32-year-old man dead in a car. The man had multiple gunshot wounds to the back and head and was pronounced dead at the scene in the East Garfield Park neighborhood.

ONE DEAD IN EAST GARFIELD PARK SHOOTINGS:

About 2:50 a.m. May 12, 2017, on Chicago's West Side, a 32-year-old man was found dead in a car. The man had multiple gunshot wounds to the back and head and was pronounced dead at the scene in the East Garfield Park neighborhood. (Erin Hooley / Chicago Tribune)

• About 11:45 p.m. Thursday on the Far South Side, a 41-year-old man was fatally shot in the Fernwood neighborhood. The man was standing on the sidewalk in the 10100 block of South LaSalle Street when a gunman in a car opened fire, striking the victim in the chest and left hand. The man was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn and pronounced dead.

The man was identified as Jerry Austin, of the 14500 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue in Dolton, according to the medical examiner's office. He was pronounced dead at 1:57 a.m. at Christ Medical Center.

• About 5:20 p.m. Thursday on the West Side, a 29-year-old man was shot in the 1100 block of North Long Avenue in South Austin. He suffered multiple wounds to the left side and was taken to West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park, where he was pronounced dead, police said.

The Cook County medical examiner's office identified the victim as Terrence Bingham, of the 5400 block of West Cortez Street in South Austin.

OTHER SHOOTINGS:

• About 2 a.m. Friday on the Northwest Side, a 30-year-old man was shot in the 6900 block of West Belmont Avenue in the Schorsch Village neighborhood after getting into an argument with a man at a bar. That man, the victim told police, followed him in a vehicle, pulled up along side him and opened fire. The victim was shot twice in the legs and suffered a graze wound to the arm.

• About 12:50 a.m. Friday on the South Side, a 26-year-old man suffered a graze wound to the foot while standing in the street in the Bronzeville neighborhood. Someone in a dark-colored sedan opened fire, and the victim was taken to Mercy Hospital, where his condition was stabilized.

• About 9:35 p.m. Thursday on the West Side, a 23-year-old man was shot while walking on a South Austin sidewalk. He got himself to Loretto Hospital and was transferred to Stroger Hospital with a gunshot wound to the right knee.

• About 9:10 p.m. on the South Side, a 36-year-old was shot while standing in an alley in the 8700 block of South Emerald Avenue in the Gresham neighborhood. He was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center, where he was treated for a graze wound to the head and his condition stabilized.

• About 6:45 p.m. on the South Side, a 27-year-old man was shot in the left leg and buttocks in the 7200 block of South Dorchester Avenue in the Grand Crossing neighborhood. He drove himself to Jackson Park Hospital but was later taken to Stroger Hospital, where his condition was stabilized. He told police he was shot by someone in a gray van.

• About 6:35 p.m. on the West Side, two people were shot in the 4000 block of West Jackson Boulevard in the West Garfield Park neighborhood, police said. A male victim was shot in the abdomen and taken in serious condition to Mount Sinai Hospital. The other male victim suffered wounds to the buttocks and foot. He was listed in good condition at the same hospital. Their ages were not available, police said.

• Shortly after 5:30 p.m. on the Southwest Side, two boys were shot in the 2500 block of West 59th Street in the Gage Park neighborhood. A 16-year-old boy was shot in the neck, leg and heel. He was taken in critical condition to Mount Sinai Hospital. The other boy, 17, was shot in the left leg. That victim was taken to Holy Cross Hospital and later transferred to Mount Sinai, where his condition was stabilized, police said.

• About 5:30 p.m. on the West Side, a 17-year-old boy was wounded in the 5000 block of West Washington Boulevard in the South Austin neighborhood, police said. Someone in a newer gray or silver Infiniti pulled up and a backseat passenger fired shots. The boy was shot in the left leg and was taken to Mount Sinai, where his condition was stabilized.

• About 3 p.m. on the West Side, two people were shot in the South Austin neighborhood in the 800 block of North Waller Avenue. A 26-year-old woman was shot in the upper right thigh and was taken to Mount Sinai, where her condition was stabilized. A 15-year-old boy suffered a wound to the lower right leg. He got himself to West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park, where his condition was stabilized, police said.

• About noon on the West Side, a person was shot in the 1100 block of South Independence Boulevard in the Lawndale neighborhood, police said. A 42-year-old man was standing on a porch when a dark vehicle drove up and someone fired shots. The victim suffered a wound to the knee and was taken to Mount Sinai in good condition.

• About 11:30 a.m. on the Northwest Side, a 31-year-old man suffered wounds to the buttocks in the 2300 block of North Normandy Avenue in the Montclare neighborhood. He was standing outside when a black sedan pulled up and someone fired shots. He was taken to Loyola University Hospital in Maywood, where his condition was stabilized, police said.

• Around 8:30 a.m. on the South Side, a 26-year-old man was shot three times in the groin in the 300 block of East 61st Street in the Washington Park neighborhood, police said. He was taken to Stroger Hospital, where his condition was stabilized. Police said he was being uncooperative with investigators.

• About 8:10 a.m. on the South Side, a 20-year-old man was shot in the upper left thigh in the 8200 block of South Evans Avenue in the Chatham neighborhood, police said. He was taken in serious condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center, police said.

Bear in mind that we are trying to attract and educate a Whole New Generation of JFKResearchers who may not be as well versed as you.

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Re: THE GREATER GOOD:

Posted: Sat May 13, 2017 4:58 am

by Slav

There is no profit in peace There is no profit in Law Enforcement

There is a lot of profit in police ticketing speeding seat belts cellphone, yes that's right in every city your looking at Millions even tens of millions in traffic tickets , it is a big business in every city and serious law enforcement matters including shootings have taken a back seat. There is no profit in shootings so they take a backseat to traffic tickets.

There is no profit in police enforcing illegal drugs , that is why they are on every street in your city, it's unbelievable that drugs are absolutely everywhere crime is everywhere, shootings are everywhere , yet traffic tickets are number one priority , why ? Because there is profit in traffic tickets, I expect crime and drugs and war will take over the country because police are too busy with the business they have built on doing traffic tickets .

I can't imagine what things will be like in 20 years.

Re: THE GREATER GOOD:

Posted: Sat May 13, 2017 3:31 pm

by JDB4JFK

Well said Slav, I agree 100 percent! Also don't forget DUI'S, officers in my city sit outside of bars hoping to trap and arrest people coming out of the bar. Instant cash, and they treat them like they robbed a bank or stole a car. Yet every year our homicides continue to rise in our city. Almost all the homicides go unsolved!

It will be an interesting next twenty years for sure!

Re: THE GREATER GOOD:

Posted: Sat May 13, 2017 3:39 pm

by Slav

They sit outside bars everywhere, I do not drink and have not drink ever, a few years ago I came out of a bar and walked towards my car, I was there for a party and had a Coke, a police officer pulled up beside me as I was walking, asked me where I was going and how much I had to drink, well I got upset and said none of your business where I am going and I don't drink period, and I continued to my car and drove away. I feel like we are in a police state similar to being in gastapo Germany, police have gotten way out of control and no longer focus on keeping the public safe, its all about the traffic tickets.

THE GREATER GOOD:

Posted: Sat May 13, 2017 5:53 pm

by Bruce Patrick Brychek

05.13.2017:

Dear JFK Murder Solved Forum Members and Readers:

04.17.2017 - I Originally Posted this Directed, Focused Headline, and OpinionatedPost.

05.13.2017 - Slav, an Exceptional JFKMS Forum Member for many years, Posted what I consider a Brilliant Response that encouraged JDB4JFK, also an ExceptionalJFKMS Forum Member for many years to add to this Discussion.

Slav and JDB4JFK I eventually read everything on Wim's Outstanding Forum. Slavand JDB4JFK I always make sure that I read all of your material, along with BobFox's, Ken Murray's, Phil Dragoo's, Thom Zajac's, JDThomas and many other favorites.

Many times I do not Respond AFTER THROWING MY PEBBLE INTO THE POND. I ALLOW, ENJOY, AND SEEK WISDOM FROM WHERE THE RIPPLES THAT I HAVE CREATED LEAD,UNIMPEDED.

I have not yet Posted the Murders and Shootings in Chicago FROM last night, and today, Saturday.

In Illinois Law Enforcement Agencies and Agents, although they will never admit toit on record, sit outside of Bars, Restaurants, and Sport's Bars, etc. WITH BINOCULARS,NIGHT VISION, AND THERMO VISION, ALONG WITH PARABOLIC MICS IN SOME INSTANCES.

SLAV AND JDB4JFK HAVE FOCUSED ABOVE ON MY POINT THAT THERE IS NO PROFIT IN PEACE.

AND THERE IS NO PROFIT IN MAJOR LAW ENFORCEMENT. A BRILLIANT POINT BY BOTH OF THESE GENTLEMEN, WHOM I AGREE WITH 90% + OF THE TIME BY THE WAY.

LOCAL LEVEL AND LOW LEVEL LAW ENFORCEMENT IS NOW A REVENUE COLLECTING DEVICEPRIMARILY.

Re: THE GREATER GOOD:

Things are real crazy out there and of course they never make it to the msm, illegal police stops looking for reasons to add to there revenue, look at all the new police stations, the new traffic court houses, the new police cars the new equipment it's like there on a uncontrollled spending spree like drunken sailors.

Watch the video above and others in the link and see what people go threw everyday.

Bruce its really is going crazy out there and no hope in sight of anything getting better, when the police traffic income drop they come out with a new ticket to issue, now all lever of government are on the ticket bandwagon, the DOT, the local law municipal law enforcement bylaw office.

Sarah Brazzle thought it was all a joke when three men in masks approached her and a friend as they walked to their cars in the South Loop early Tuesday.

Then she saw one of them had a gun. "If you run, we're going to shoot you," the man said.

She turned and ran anyway. Down an alley in the 2200 block of South Wabash Avenue and around the corner, circling back to check on her friend.

She found him on the ground. He had been shot in the back while trying to run away too.

The friend, 27 years old, was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where police said his condition was stabilized.

Police said Brazzle, 24, and her friend had walked into an armed carjacking just before 1:40 a.m. After stealing a gray 2006 BMW, the carjackers decided to rob them too, according to police.

Brazzle said she and friends were headed back to their cars after a night out in the area of Wabash and Cermak Road when they encountered the carjackers.

"I was scared they were going to shoot me," she said.

As an ambulance left with the 27-year-old man, a man on Wabash kept screaming. Around the corner, Brazzle and other people stood outside a lounge.

Man critically wounded in Back of the YardsA 25-year-old man was shot late Monday in the 4800 block of South Paulina Street in the Back of the Yards neighborhood, police said. (Elvia Malagon / Chicago Tribune)A man walked past and soulfully sang, "Tell me what's going on."

The 27-year-old man was among 17 people shot across the city over 15 hours Monday through Tuesday — 11 of them wounded in just five hours.

• On the Southwest Side's Marquette Park neighborhood, a 28-year-old woman was seriously wounded about 1:30 a.m. in the 2500 block of West 73rd Street. She was sitting in a car with her boyfriend when three people approached and opened fire, striking her in the back and twice in the abdomen, police said. The car crashed into a parked car. The woman was taken in serious condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.

• About 1:05 a.m. on the West Side, a 25-year-old man was shot in the head in the South Austin neighborhood, police said. Officers on patrol in the 5100 block of West Madison Street came across a crowd gathered around the man, who had been shot in the head and was unresponsive. He was taken in critical condition to Mount Sinai Hospital.

• On the Northwest Side about 11:35 p.m. Monday, a 24-year-old man was shot in the left thigh and was grazed in the neck while standing in the 7500 block of North Kedzie Avenue, police said. The shooter was in a black sedan. The victim was taken to Presence St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, where his condition was stabilized.

• About 11:10 p.m. on the South Side, a 22-year-old man was shot in the right leg while in the 6900 block of South Maplewood Avenue in the Lithuanian Plaza neighborhood. Officers responding to a call of gunfire found the man on the sidewalk. His condition was stabilized at Advocate Christ Medical Center.

• In the West Side's South Austin neighborhood about 10:50 p.m., a 21-year-old woman was shot in the right ankle in the 800 block of North Lockwood Avenue, police said. She was sitting in a vehicle when people fired shots at the car. She went to West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park, where her condition was stabilized.

• About 9:40 p.m. on the West Side, a 16-year-old girl was shot in the left foot and leg in the 3300 block of West 24th Street in the Little Village neighborhood, police said. She was walking with two men when a man walked out of an alley and opened fire, striking the girl twice. The teen's condition was stabilized at Mount Sinai Hospital.

• About 9:30 p.m. on the South Side, a 25-year-old man was critically injured in a shooting while walking in the 4800 block of South Paulina Street in the Back of the Yards neighborhood. A man, who was on the sidewalk, shot the man on the left side of the abdomen and chest. He was taken in critical condition to Stroger Hospital.

Residents of the block watched as detectives bent down and searched an overgrown front lawn. An officer placed markers on the grass near the sidewalk stained with what appeared to be blood. Officers also examined a pair of shoes left behind in the grass.

• Minutes earlier in the South Side's Englewood neighborhood, two people were shot about 9:25 p.m. while standing in the 5500 block of South Shields Avenue, police said. The two shooters emerged from a gangway and shot a 20-year-old man in the right calf, and they shot a 20-year-old woman in the left arm. The man's condition was stabilized at Stroger Hospital. The woman took herself to the University of Chicago Medicine, and she was expected to be transferred to Mount Sinai Hospital.

• About 8:35 p.m. on the West Side, a 38-year-old man was shot in the right buttocks and left shoulder in an alley in the 3100 block of West Madison Street in the East Garfield Park neighborhood. He went to Stroger Hospital, but police did not immediately release information about his condition.

• About 7:50 p.m. on the West Side, a 16-year-old boy was shot in the 3700 block of West Arthington Street in the Homan Square neighborhood, police said. The boy suffered a gunshot wound to the left thigh and took a private vehicle to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was in good condition, police said.

• About 5:20 p.m. on the West Side, a 25-year-old man was shot in the upper shoulder in the 4900 block of West Potomac Avenue, in the Austin neighborhood. The 25-year-old got himself to a West Suburban Medical Center and a gun was found at the scene, police said.

• About 4:30 p.m. on the South Side, a 23-year-old man was shot in the thigh in the 5300 block of South Morgan Street in the Back of the Yards, police said. The 23-year-old told police he saw a dark-colored vehicle headed south on Morgan and heard shots fired from it, police said. Hospital information was not known.

• About 3:20 p.m. in the 1100 block of West 51st Street in the Back of the Yards neighborhood, a 19-year-old man was shot in his left knee. He was walking south on May toward 51st Street when a dark-colored Toyota Camry approached with four men in of it, at least one of whom began shooting, police said. The Camry fled south on May, and no one was arrested.

• About 1:45 p.m. in the 1100 block of North Monticello Avenue, in the Humboldt Park neighborhood, an 18-year-old man was shot in the upper shoulder, police said. He was taken in serious condition to Mount Sinai Hospital.

• About 10:50 a.m. on the West Side, a 26-year-old man was shot in a drive-by shooting in the Humboldt Park neighborhood. He was shot twice in the back while he was in the 1400 block of North St. Louis Avenue. The shooter was in a passing green car. He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where his condition was stabilized.